Midway Fire District rescues Firehouse Subs worker with donated tool

Tool bought with Firehouse Subs grant saves restaurant employee

12:44 AM,
Jan. 5, 2013

Firefighters extricate a Firehouse Subs employee from a vehicle after a crash on New Year's Day at Country Club Road off Gulf Breeze Parkway. Firehouse Subs donated the money that helped buy the extrication tool.

Written by

Eric Heisig
eheisig@pnj.com

The Midway Fire District received a $23,000 grant from Firehouse Subs in October to buy a power tool to cut people out of smashed cars. It was something the department needed, as their old equipment wasn't sufficient to cut through the metals in new cars.

Then on New Year's Day, responding to a car crash in the rain, firefighters found themselves cutting a Tiger Point Firehouse Subs employee out of a car with that equipment.